Day 91- Be Still....
📖Daily Reading
Psalms 46-48
🎥 Video
Join me on my morning walk as we rise and shine together by walking through the Bible daily and learn a practical applicable coaching nugget from the ultimate life coach - our creator (whatever that means to you). No judgement zone here, all are welcome, we are all on a spiritual journey because we are after all spiritual beings having a human experience.
📝 Reflection
Psalm 46
God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge! A river brings joy to the city of our God, the sacred home of the Most High. God dwells in that city; it cannot be destroyed. From the very break of day, God will protect it. The nations are in chaos, and their kingdoms crumble! God;s voice thunders, and the earth melts! The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is here among us; the God of Israel is our fortress. Come see the glorious works of the Lord: See how he brings destruction upon the world. He causes wars to end throughout the earth. He breaks the bow and snaps the spear; he burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is here among us; the God of Israel is our fortress.
I really want the word to speak for itself today. I would encourage you to read it multiple times as you take some deep breaths, calm your mind, relax your body and be still and know…
I know in our world right now we literally have wars going on. But I want you to imagine that the earthquakes, mountains crumbling, oceans roaring and foaming are your thought life. Your thought life also dictates the state of your nervous system. Many of us stay in a hyper stressed state and our nervous systems get wrecked. We get overtaken and overwhelmed by our to do lists, our care for others, our responsibilities, our worries about having done things well or ‘right’ enough, meeting future expectations of ourselves or others that we miss out on God’s provision.
Life happens for us because God is for us, even in the challenges, struggles, and wars. Pain, struggle, heartache, and loss are often the price of admission into growth. Unless you take the time to get still and know you will not be able to see and feel this, you will be caught in and beat up by the storms of life. God wants us to surrender control and know and allow him to be God. BTW, control is an illusion, all we ever have is right now and most of us miss the gift of now, because we are in the past and/or the future.
We can learn to let it go, hold it all loosely and know. Show up day by day and moment by moment and just do your best. Your nervous system maybe like mine and is keeping the sympathetic nervous system engaged and on all the time. Our bodies are not meant to be in this heightened state of ‘fight, flight, freeze or fawn’. For those of us that may have experienced a lot of trauma, believe it or not it can feel normal and ‘comfortable’ to be stressed. Feeling relaxed and allowing the parasympathetic nervous system be in charge can feel strange and uncomfortable. But this is actually how God designed our bodies and brains to function best, this is meant to be our normal and primary state of being and the sympathetic nervous system is only designed to take over and for short bursts of time as needed.
If this sounds like you and your sympathetic nervous system stays engaged, if you feel like you are in stuck in a constant state of fight, flight, freeze or fawning, there is hope. It does take work and it needs to be a priority, but it well worth the time and effort! You can start today by meditating on this scripture. You may also want to explore meditation, breathe work, body scan techniques, learning, seeking knowledge, journaling and even therapy or coaching. It is possible to change and learn to live life a new way, a way that God actually intended for us. We can be a relaxed passenger on this ship of life and trust God as our Captain. We can shift and move from PTSD to PTGA - Post Traumatic Growth Adventure, with God’s help it is possible.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
What is one practice that you can begin today to - be still and know?
📖Tomorrows Reading
Psalm 49
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